Thursday, July 10, 2008

A Casting Call and Holding on Tight

For anyone who might be interested, I came across this. I think it sounds pretty fun. Too bad I'm too old.

Casting Call: A new reality weight loss series for Lifetime is casting, looking for a group of real-life girlfriends who all want to lose between 20-50 pounds and who are 28-35 years old. If selected, the friends will go through a 90-day fitness transformation with the help of trainers and life coaches. Interested applicants can send an email to lifetime@beyondcasting.com or call 818-255-9330.

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This week has been good. I've been making smart decisions and I'm feeling the strength and will power to move forward and move beyond the where I'm at right now. As each good day passes, I can see the string of days getting longer and my attitude becoming more solidified.

However, as I read through the blogs, I find a lot of people struggling over different methods of weight loss. There are those where counting points has become frustrating or limiting, there are others where the increase of exercise isn't working and others where eating practically nothing hasn't budged the scale. Levels of frustration seem to be hitting an all time high and it doesn't need to be that way.

I'm in this same boat with all of you. I want to lose weight. No doubt. And I don't want to come off as though I know all the answers because I don't. I'm far from it. I've never done WW, South Beach, Beverly Hills, Atkins, Pritikin or any other formalized diet plan. But I have found a formula which seems to be working for me and I'm happy about that. I want each and everyone to have the same good fortune, or whatever it is, to find something that works for you.

I know there isn't one plan which will work for everyone but it seems as though there's a lot of over thinking and over obsessing that's happening. It almost seems like the stress of losing weight, making this "life style change", the eating healthy is getting the best of people. Let's all just take a deep breath and relax about it. We, of course, all have our struggles, our frustrations, the mental gymnastics we go through, our past we deal with but just remember, the tighter you hold on to something the harder it is to let it go.

Girl I think this is the first time I will have to agree to disagree with you, for myself. I know that sometimes there is over thinking but a lot of the time my overthinking periods come when I am my actions are not up to par… in fact they come when I am “relaxing” a bit too much in the eating department. Its different when I am in the weightloss “zone” when things are clicking the weight is coming off etc.. then its like I don’t have to think about it. But it takes me the overthinking and obsessing times to get to that next zone. I also know that for myself I am going to obsess diet or not… eating well or not… its my personality. You know I still love ya even though we are different =).

I'm a bit anti-formalized weight loss (although that's just my opinion and I stand far more firmly behind "do what works for you"!)

I think a lot of weight loss programs needlessly complicate things by ascribing points or carb values to foods that may not be readily accessible on the label. So that (plus the commercialization concerns) is why I stick to my own plan which is pretty much just calorie counting but trying to limit empty calories as much as possible.

Like I said though - it's about doing what works. And if you've got to analyse what isn't working in order to figure out what will, then that's not so bad.

The Sell Out

This Is Me

I think of myself as though I'm a pretty typical hipster kinda gal. I feel like I'm younger than I am and I'm still trying to figure out what I'm going to do when I grow up. For now, I'm working part-time "for the man," but more importantly, I'm a mom to a daughter, The Little Miss (TLM) and a wife to The Husband. We live in an area of the country where being anything bigger than a size 6 is considered unacceptably large and in a town where movie stars live.
I've always been the Big Girl. Growing up it was because I was taller and "big boned." Now I'm the Big Girl because I'm fat. At one time I loved being the Big Girl but now, not so much.
This blog is my way trying to be a part of a community that can help each other through our struggles to be who we really are. For me, it's still being a Big Girl just not of the fat variety.